WHARF WARFARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 7

WHARF WARFARE.

RIOTS AT ADELAIDE.

Watersiders' Fierce Attack

On Free Labourers.

REVOLVER USED

ADELAIDE. Januarv 14

A erowd of 1000 waterside workers at Port Adelaide to-day niched the volunteers who were unloading the Mareeba during the "?moke-oh."

The \olunteei> >tramhled for the panpw»v, which hroke. and 15 men fell o;i the wharf. They and others climbed the rope.-, crossed uver the Miireeba and jumped into ketches on the other side.

Stone- were thrown at them. One volunteer replied by tiring four *hoi* fioni a revolver. Then 150 mounted police swoojied down on the rioters, who begun to won- towards the steamer Mannipa, where the volunteers were attacked with >t<«no> and boots.

The police n-cd their batons, freely, and xattered the men in all directions many havin? to be sent to hospital. One volunteer, however, wa- badly injured, being brutally kicked when he was on the pround.

MIXED IN BRAWL.

ELDERLY MAN BADLY MAULED

SYDNEY. Januarv 14.

Jainc« Dipnam. ajred 04. wa«- s-cekinc: work from the Bakers' L'uion at the Trade*. Hall in Sydney to-day, when the crowd of unemployed men commenced fighting. Dij;nam was knocked down and kicked mo.it unmercifully in the heed and face. His skull was fractured and his right eye destroyed.